Microsummit this week, details to come

It’ll be too small to even call a mini-summit, but stay tuned to Habs Inside/Out Monday for complete details on a little event that’s in the works for this coming Thursday evening, July 15, in Montreal-suburban Pointe-Claire.

Very informal, but a chance for Habs fans and HIO visitors to gather in 30C temperatures of July and talk about, what else, the Canadiens.

i agree howard webb is one of the best, his experience in the EPL lets him work with primadonnas weekly so he knows his ship.

but he did mess up the sneijder free kick, and the de jong yellow could have been a red (viewed by some). I think at that point in the game (around the 25th-30th minute) it’s just tough to give a straight red to anybody…especially in a world cup final. the pressure is IMMENSE.

some blame on the free kick has to be directed to the linesman, he should have saw the deflection at the very least.

Except for the free kick that went off the Spanish wall, that should have resulted in a dutch corner, but instead became a goal kick which ended in the game winning goal. That was the big one, but the ridiculous number of dives he fell for were BS too. So yeah, he was crap.

That would be great, but I would say Tinordi is a minimum two-year wait. He seems to have the body type and skill set to get it going, but I suspect at least a year of NCAA hockey, plus he’ll likely be putting in an AHL season. I think the Habs are going to try and go slower with the kids from now on.

I always like to see the youth get a push. I cant help but think though that Robinson would’ve been great for the young D (Subban, Tinordi, Weber and Obyrne), just knowing you have someone on the bench that has your back would do wonders.

Spain was probably the better team but the refs were horrible. That play where the dutch guy was in the box and the defender wrapped him up should have been a penalty shot.

And it looked offside when they scored. The last yellow against the Netherlands, the replay showed that the Spanish player didn’t even touch him. Too much diving. And the refs were biting on too many of them.

The winning team’s soccer federation will receive about $31 million in prize money from FIFA.
The Spanish Football Association has promised to give each of its 23
players a bonus of 600,000 euros (or about $758,000 in U.S. dollars)

FIFA will pay the final’s losing organization around $2.4 million. It
gave out prize money to the tune of $7.5 million for a team getting out
of group play, $9 million for reaching the quarterfinals and $18
million for reaching the semifinals. Losing in the semifinals was worth
$20 million.

I think that would just have us getting our butts kicked. Theoretically we could assemble two teams for the OLY, but not 3 or 4 especially if you start dividing on territorial lines with the weakness from Quebec right now.

Maybe Canada could do like the UK and divide up into 4 ‘countries’ (West, Ontario, Quebec and East)for the hockey world championships and olympics…Hockey needs more drama. There just isnt enough hate between Canada and Sweden, Finland, Germany etc.

I had 6 of my friends over to watch the game on my new 3D tv 52 inch (Sony) still the game was a yawn in 3D and to think I went out and had to buy 3 more pairs of 3D glasses at a 150.00 a pop. I cant wait for football and even better hockey season.

Spain is a very good team. I was cheering for the Netherlands but…… I was also hoping the referee would not be a part of the end result or a factor in the outcome but he “took up too much space” in the scheme of things. I’m glad we have hockey as I don’t think I could take too much of the diving and I’m dead one second and I’m up the next.

it was an ugly soccer game at the very least. there were some points of brilliance, but way too many free kicks which resulted in no flow of play…the jabulani didn’t help keeping the free kicks down either.

well not saying the dutch should have won cause they were playing ugly anti-football…but the spanish were too scared to play against the anti-football and fouls. only iniesta and cesc showed any bravery. cesc is used to it considering he plays in the EPL, but i’m impressed with the diminutive iniesta’s hustle. although he dove too much (causing 2 cards and a sending off of heitinga), iniesta was brave like our fellow gionta.

i watched 116 minutes of listless soccer, i wanted at least a shootout. i am disappointed in the result.

at the same time, howard webb is much deserving of reffing in the world cup. a very good ref from the EPL and he knows how to handle the primadonnas.